Type Records Showcase:
Helios + Zelienople + Xela

Saturday, March 15
Admission: $8, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 7:30 and 10pm
reservations are recommended

The highly-acclaimed Manchester, England label Type Records will be showcasing three of it's heavyweights from the roster:

Helios
In a short space of time the Boston based multi-instrumentalist Keith Kenniff has become awash with international acclaim. Combining his many musical loves, Keith manages somehow to bring in the warring elements of indie-pop, experimental electronics, folk and world music resulting in a sound which is distinctly his own; these might be songs in the traditional sense, but there's little traditional about the way they have been produced.

Xela
Manchester, England's John Twells is the label-boss for Type as well as the man behind the Xela moniker. As Xela, Twells casts out dark, yet never suffocating, compositions.Drawing on the work of 1970's horror directors (Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and George Romero et al.) and their respective soundtracks, Xela pays a considerable debt to the likes of Goblin or Fabio Frizzi albeit frayed with a bloodied disposition.

Zelienople
Fusing the warring factions of blues, noise, metal, folk and jazz the Chicago trio create as breathtaking a psychedelic sound as you're likely to find, and unlike so many others in the scene it never threatens to overwhelm you with meaningless academia or pretension. In addition to releasing their latest album on Type, Zelienople are veterans of the underground avant-rock scene, releasing past efforts on Time-Lag, Root Strata, Digitalis, PseudoArcana and 267 Lattajjaa.

DIRT
Working off impressions from films's by Andrei Tarkovsky and Yasajiro Ozu, and a personal belief that cinema is at it's best when led by intuition, filmmaker Donald Prokop made 'Dirt' simple in form, complex by nature. Dirt is a short film where images are orchestrated with their natural sounds to produce rhythms that poke around at lucidity.

Dirt is the directorial debut of Donald Prokop, a filmmaker/stone mason residing in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The piece was shot by Mike Weis, a photographer and musician from Chicago who also plays in the band Zelienople. Sound design was created by Criterion Thornton, also a Williamsburg, Brooklyn artist who records and operates Broklyn Beats Records.